About the Institute
Founded in 2017, the Institute for Urban and Regional Infrastructure Finance (IURIF) aims to advance research and engagement on strategic issues of infrastructure investment across urban and rural areas. It promotes and amplifies the scholarship in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in multiple areas of expertise, including state and local public finance, infrastructure sustainability, and urban and regional affairs.
IURIF's goal is to address critical challenges we face in the collective provision of infrastructure. The challenges are both immediate and long term, across geography and beyond national boundaries. With IURIF as a platform, we will contribute to the policy discourse by:
- Demystifying the system of infrastructure finance and capital budget decisions
- Enhancing the understanding of value creation through infrastructure development
- Raising the awareness of urgent infrastructure needs and the associated consequences
- Facilitating informed decision making with data, analyses, and the exchange of ideas
- Engaging the public and communities in collaborative knowledge building and deliberative problem solving
Research
The research scope of IURIF includes not only physical infrastructure assets such as transportation, water, environmental facilities, and other utilities, but also social infrastructure assets that include education, public housing, and public safety.
Infrastructure Finance
- Minnesota Transportation Finance Database [2017 Report, 2019 Report]
- Distance-Based User Fee, 2019 Report
- Taxing Ride-Hailing Services
- Innovative Financial Arrangements for Stormwater Finance
- Minnesota Transportation Funding: How are federal, state dollars redistributed? [2018 Report]
- Value Increase and Value Capture: TH 610 Case Study
- Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Task Force
- Implementing Distance-Based User Fees as a Replacement for the Fuel Tax - FY10 TechPlan
- Advancing Public Interest in Public-Private Partnerships of State Highway Development
- Financing Transportation Through the Capture of Land Value Gains: The Value Capture Strategies of TIF, SAD, and Joint Development
- Transportation Funding in Minnesota: Past, Present, and Prospects
Capital Budgeting
- Performance Indicators in Transit Fund Allocation
- Budgetary Impacts of Alley Snow Plowing in St. Paul
- Disclosure of State Infrastructure Needs
- Truth and Integrity in State Budgeting
Infrastructure Impacts
- Quantifying Socioeconomic Benefits of Complete Streets
- Transportation Investment and Job Creation in Minnesota Counties
- Transportation Investment and Economic Development in Minnesota Counties
- Economic Benefits of Transportation Service Coordination in Minnesota
- St. Paul Alley Plowing Study [2019 Report]
Transportation Policy and Economic Competitiveness
IURIF-International
- The Rise of Public-Private Partnerships in China
- IURIF Europe Public-Private Partnership Initiatives
- Funding Urban Infrastructure Development, China Style
